What's the actual purpose for this question?
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LipisJun 21 '12 at 14:41

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@Lipis some companies want to implement their own branded version of this software on their own sites to supplement their support and/or knowledge base and provide a place where their customers can interact with them in a way similar to this network. All the alternatives I've investigated pretty much suck in comparison.
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Aaron BertrandJul 12 '12 at 13:15

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13 revisions to a 10 word non-question in 3 years on Meta. Makes sense.
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user226059Jun 20 '13 at 19:02

@user226059 well, since you went through all of the trouble of counting how many revisions there were, surely you noticed that the original question had it stated as a question which has only recently been revised into a statement.
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FizzledOutSep 28 '13 at 3:11

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Isn't StackExchange itself a clone of other Q&A sites? Q&A sites with reputation points for good answers have been around for years - I joined Perlmonks back in the year 2000 (it's still going strong). I see SE as a fairly recent arrival.
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A ENov 19 '14 at 10:08

shapado: Ruby, mongomapper and mongodb. Live site, also provide hosted sites for a fee. AGPLv3. Seems to be under active development.

OSQA: Django. Live site. GPLv3. More actively developed fork of CNPROG. OSQA is in maintenance mode, with security and Django platform updates, but few new features. AnswerHub has replaced OSQA as DZone's primary Q&A solution.

openoverflow: Ruby, PostgreSQL, Haml. MIT license. No example site, and I can't find anyone using this one. Not a lot of recent activity; last code commit, May 2009.

And I don't really want to get into listing clones, but I have just come across Answer Bag which seems to be an all-encompassing clone covering everything from aviation through programming to religion. Or maybe that was there first? And Just Answer is another...

Not sure where this comment belongs, but I recently deployed and customized Question2Answer in 15 minutes, whereas OSQA took hours and still isn't working right. FWIW!
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goodytxMar 8 '12 at 16:55

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Do all these look like StackExchange sites on purpose?!
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Marco DemaioApr 3 '12 at 20:10

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I noticed how Java was the only language without an entry. According to meta.stackexchange.com/a/109004/160875 Qato is written in Java. (The original question asked for web apps inspired by the StackExchange system, but didn't specify open source. Some of the other answers mention non-open source implementations of SE, but I had my eye on that None known spot under "Java"!)
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Ellie KesselmanApr 29 '12 at 1:12

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After getting tired of OSQA and its django dependencies, I installed question2answer and worked great so far: pretty complete, lots of plugins.
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DeigoteJun 6 '12 at 11:50

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Do any of these clone SE's excellent chat? For my Q&A needs, I'm OK with using the SE family, but that chat is fantastic and I'd love to see it (or something like it) start replacing IRC.
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KRyanDec 7 '12 at 5:43

@Adam although there is a section for "half finished clones" that one didn't look very developed at all. Also it looks like the person who added it is the developer; I thought that would count as spam. If others think the project is fine, go ahead and put it back.
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DisgruntledGoatApr 29 '14 at 9:08

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Hello, Im the QARoR developer and put it into this topic. What can i say more about development... StartX Stanford already use QARoR, so its not that bad right? There are few apps here which "didn't look very developed at all" for example T002_rails-overflow. DisgruntledGoat, give people a proper choice. @AdamDavis if you think its interesting app, do us a favor and put it back. Thank you!
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mateuszdwJul 12 '14 at 8:46

@rjb It is not. The new site, One Frame Link is in development, but will probably do Q&A last (I'm focusing on other tools, and as you can see, I need to do design work). Also, I'd probably do the engine much differently than I did it the first time around. However, I might make the original open source, as I don't have much use for it anymore.
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casperOneFeb 19 '13 at 12:19

Pretty surprising that a site for web designers would chose a text size/weight that makes it look like everything is in bold for emphasis... almost as bad as everything being in caps IMO.
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U62Aug 13 '09 at 16:22

@Tshepang: if you mean this, it specifically says "open source"; I'm unable to get at qato's source anywhere, leading me to the conclusion that it is closed-source, and thus doesn't really fit there.
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PiskvorMay 16 '11 at 14:27

There is also MetaOptimize's community QA site. It is clearly based on the SE model in its design, style, functionality, etc. It's content is a mix of Stack Overflow programming questions and Cross Validated machine learning & data visualization questions, with perhaps bits of other SE sites thrown in. Their self description is:

I managed to get Qwench (a PHP Stack Overflow clone) from inscripts / anantgarg working under IIS 5.1 - with IIRF.
Extending to provide search and additional adminstration functions to manage Q&A should make the application more useful.